“I’m relieved that the officers are OK, but I’m not happy with the fact that we had to take someone's life. That's someone's son that has a terrible dependency on drugs and I hate the fact we had to take his life,” Sanders said.

A loaded syringe fell out of Hall's pocket.

Sanders suspects it was filled with heroin.

“I now know from speaking with his mother that he's been battling addiction for some time," he said.

The gun Hall had on him was a fake, but Sanders said even he couldn't tell.

"I thought it was a real gun. It looked like a semi-automatic weapon, but I’ve now learned it was a BB gun," Sanders said.

The chief has looked at body camera video and talked with his officers, and while it's not his job to make the final call, he said, he feels his men did nothing wrong.

"I feel comfortable that my officers acted very professionally and did what they had to do. Not what they wanted to do, but what they had to do," he said.

The two officers who shot Hall are on administrative leave pending the investigation.

Chief sanders said there were also other officers there, and he said one of them tried frantically to save Hall's life after the shooting.